TOMORROW Wednesday, July 28 | 6:30 PM EDT

Peter Heller (Founder) and Betsy Steward (Senior Consultant) represent the Heller Fundraising Group located in New York City, which provides fundraising strategies for nonprofits across the nation. The Heller Group builds abundance for nonprofits through customized consulting and training for successful capital campaigns, insightful feasibility studies, and major gift programs. Peter started the company 17 years ago following a successful career leading major capital campaigns at large universities. 

The South has long been at the forefront of social justice and civil rights movements, but movement and nonprofit work in the region is often under-resourced, underfunded, and overlooked. Join us for a conversation with Southern leaders on the forefronts of national justice movements, who will talk about their experiences building power in the face of disenfranchisement and offer their insights on what nonprofits and community organizations in the region need to sustain their work. This conversation is co-sponsored by YANA and Go South, a Yale alumni-founded summer fellowship program fiscally sponsored by YANA.

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy '96 LAW is lead counsel on Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s elections policies that disproportionately impacted voters of color. A founding partner of the Georgia-based litigation firm Lawrence and Bundy, LLC, she graduated magna cum laude from Spelman College and received her law degree from Yale Law School. She has served on a number of boards and committees, including the American Bar Association’s Election Law Advisory Committee.

Pastor Kenneth Glasgow is the Founder/President of The Ordinary People Society and an advocate for harm reduction, prison reform, and restoration of rights and opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. He is also the Convener/Co-Convener of the National Criminal Justice Coalition, and the Co-chairman of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People Family Movement. Instrumental in registering over 120,000 formerly incarcerated to vote in the State of Alabama, he is the first to win a lawsuit where people convicted with felonies never lose their voting rights, incarcerated or not.

Irvin Camacho is an immigrant rights and community organizer in Arkansas. He is a Bail Disruptor with the Bail Project and serves on the ACLU of Arkansas Board. Previously, he was the NWA Coordinator for Arkansas Coalition for Dream and the Statewide Coordinator for the Arkansas Natural Dreamers. He continues to organize with the Immigrant Defense Team, a youth-led organization that empowers and educates immigrant communities in Arkansas.

Paola Jimenez-Read '22 (moderator) is a rising senior at Yale majoring in Political Science. Originally from Jacksonville, FL, this summer she is working as Go South’s Development and Operations Fellow after serving as a Go South fellow at Fairness West Virginia summer 2020. At Yale, Paola is also a Dahl Research Scholar and President of the Dominican Students Association.

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